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  • From: "L. J. Swain" <larry.swain AT wmich.edu>
  • To: Kata Markon <gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Flight of the naked Youth ; gmark digest: March 13, 2001
  • Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:09:52 -0500




JFAlward AT aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 3/14/01 10:50:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> larry.swain AT wmich.edu writes:
>
> << Not everything in the gospels must be found
> to have Hebrew scripture antecedents, and in the context, a soldier
> grabbing a young man's white tunic so that the young man runs away
> naked---I just don't see the internal clues of the scene pointing to the
> Jerusalem establishment, there isn't anything narratively to hang my hat
> on for this one either.
>
> Larry Swain >>
> ===========
> I don't believe everything has to have a scriptural antecedent, but if one
> exists and it provides a simpler explanation than others offered, it should
> be paramount.
>
> Now, as for the young man: How else could Mark have symbolically shamed
> Jerusalem, if that was his intent? Isaiah and Lamentations provide a
> perfectly simple way to do it: Create a naked person. How could that be
> plausibly done? No one would believe a person stripping naked of his own
> accord would symbolize the shame, so Mark had to have someone else rip his
> clothes from him. But, why would they do that? By grabbing at him to
> arrest
> him, catching his cloak instead, and he twists out of it. The person has to
> be cowardly, as Jerusalem was, and shamed, and Mark gets two for one by
> having the man try to flee, then lose his clothes. The narrative logic
> seems
> to be there to me.
>
> Joe Alward
>
> ---

The question is though Joe, was that his intent? There must be clues in the
text
to indicate his intent, what are those clues? Frankly, I don't see them.

Larry Swain





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